WHAT IS A WOMAN?

This is a popular question in our society today, a question very few want to answer.

During her confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson, “Can you provide a definition for the word woman?” Her answer: “I can’t, I am not a biologist.” It’s hard to believe that this woman is now confirmed as a Supreme Court Judge! If she cannot define the basic fact of “what is a woman,” what else will she not be able to define?

Have you watched Matt Walsh’s eye-opening documentary, “What is a Woman?” He could not get anyone to answer this question—doctors, professors, politicians, and even women marching for the rights of women! We live in a deluded world.

In the first three chapters of Genesis we read how God created mankind. Can you tell me how many different words God used to describe the woman He created? Did you guess?

Let’s discover them, shall we?

1.   FEMALE

This is the first word used to describe the woman. “God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them” (Genesis 1:27 NKJV).

God did not create two males. He created male and female, each uniquely different. It is horrific to think we now live in a world where young people and even children are being influenced to change to the opposite sex. Yet no matter what they do to their bodies they will always be male or female. Females have an XX pair of sex chromosomes, and males have an XY pair. That’s it.

Men and women differ in every cell of their bodies because they carry a different chromosomal pattern. There are 6,500 different genes between male and female. Scientists have even discovered approximately 100 gender differences in the brain! And even after people are dead, they can still determine the sex of male or female by analyzing the bones! *

We go to the New Testament where Jesus repeats these same words from Genesis 1:27. The most common Greek word for female in the New Testament is gune meaning “woman, wife.” However, on this occasion, Jesus uses a different word, thelus, coming from a root word thelazo meaning “a suckling mother.” Jesus described the female in her role of nursing a baby, a very female function. The only other time we read this word in the New Testament is in Romans 1:26 where it speaks of God giving the women up to “vile affections” because they turned away from their “natural function.”

Interestingly, the word Jesus used for male is arsen meaning “heavier for lifting.” Males have 50 percent more brute strength than women and can carry heavier loads.

2.   HELPER

We don’t read about the woman again until after God created the man. Then in Genesis 2:18 God says: “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.” He uses two words here and we will look at them one at a time.

This word is not talking about a subsidiary helper but a needed helper, a helper who brings expertise and highly qualified assistance to the one needing it. It is used 21 times in the Old Testament, 16 of which refer to God as our Helper, Savior, Rescuer, and Strengthener. We could not do without God to help us. We need Him moment by moment.

I love the picture the Bible gives of God “riding through the heavens to our help, through the skies in his majesty” (Deuteronomy 33:26). He does not lag behind but comes victoriously to our aid.

The amazing truth is that although this word usually refers to God as our help, the first time the Bible uses it is to describe the woman. When we bring help to our husbands, we reveal the wonderful attribute of God as our Helper.

3.   PERFECT FIT

The two words “help meet” in the Hebrew are ezer kenegdo. This is the only time the word kenegdo is used in the Bible, It’s a very special word. It means “something that fits another perfectly, according to the opposite of him, one of two parts that complement or correspond to each other, matching.”

God’s Word Bible and the NLT translate it: “just right for him.”

The CJB says: “a companion suitable for helping him.”

The CEB says: “perfect for him.”

The Amplified Version says: “(one who balances him—a counterpart who is) suitable and complementary for him.”

God did not create two the same but someone part of Adam but different from him, one who fits him perfectly. If we were the same, we would not fit. It is not an adequate illustration, but I think of a puzzle. If you take a piece of a puzzle that is the same shape as another piece, it is impossible to fit them together. You must find a different shape, the one that fits. God created the woman opposite to the husband but to uniquely fit him.

We fit perfectly together physically. When God brought the woman to the man He stated: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). “One flesh” is the first description of marriage. God created our bodies to fit as one.

He also mandated from the “one flesh” union to “be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth.” We can only do this as man and woman. This is why the homosexual relationship is totally opposed to God’s plan.

We not only fit physically but also in function. We are opposites but necessary for one another. The husband brings his strengths to the marriage of leader, protector, and provider. If we try to fulfill our husband’s role, we are no longer kenegdo. We forsake who we are meant to be. Instead, we bring the strengths God has given to us, the strengths of mothering, nurturing, and managing and keeping the home, the most powerful, and nation-impacting career in the world.

4.   WOMAN

We have arrived at the word that women are scared to accept! Genesis 2:22 where God tells us that God “made a woman and brought her unto the man.”

When checking the word “feminine” in the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary it says: “The first syllable is probably from womb . . . The last part of the word is probably from man, quasi, “femman,” womb-man. To be feminine is to be ‘a womb man.’” We also read the word wife in verse 24 but it is the same Hebrew word as woman.

So now we are getting to understand why many women do not want to answer the question, “What is a woman?” They do not want to acknowledge who they are. To be female is to be a womb man. The womb is our most distinguishing characteristic as a woman. God created us purposefully with a womb to conceive and grow life, not only a physical life but an eternal soul. We have breasts to nurture and nourish that life. What a glorious privilege, the greatest honor given to women.

Sadly, so many women are brainwashed against their womanly functions. What a tragedy to go through life and not embrace who God created you to be!

5.   MOTHER

Genesis 2:24 mentions the word mother for the first time in the Bible. “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother . . .” Another question for you. Can you tell me where the mother and father were when God said these words?

They could not find them anywhere. Why? Because there was no father or mother on the earth. Before a physical father and mother ever existed, God established His plan for all generations to come and the way He intends us to live. Fatherhood. Motherhood. The word mother means “the bond of the family.” She is the glue that holds the family together.

Adam also uses the word mother even though he knew nothing of the function of a mother. He had never seen a mother pregnant, giving birth, or nursing a baby at her breast. And yet he states in Genesis 3:20: “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” Adam spoke prophetically as he affirmed God’s highest purpose for women—to be mothers. It is the highest career God has given to women.

In fact, motherhood is not so much what we do, but who we are. We are created specifically for this task, physically and innately. Some women will not marry and there are those who cannot conceive a child. They are no less mothers. God has divinely put in every female creation the attributes of nurturing and mothering. Oh yes. Even those who reject children. They will have a pet that they mother like a baby. They cannot get away from their maternal instinct.

6.   LIFE GIVER

The sixth name the Bible uses to describe women is Eve, the name inspired by God that Adam gave to his wife. Eve is the Hebrew word chavvah and means “life giver.” We were born to be life givers. To bring forth life from the womb. To fill the earth with godly offspring. To stop life is to resist God’s plan and reject the first words God spoke into the ears of man.

We not only have the privilege to bring forth life from the womb, but to nurture this precious new life from the breast. We continue to feed our children life-giving foods. We speak life-giving words. We pour into them life-giving nourishment from God’s living Word.

Do not be deceived by Satan’s plans. He hates life and seeks to eliminate the godly seed and the image of God from the earth. If we belong to God’s kingdom we will embrace life, for His kingdom is a kingdom of life. We will embrace who God created us to be, women created in His image.

When a woman rejects her womanly functions, she loses the glory God intends her to live in.

NANCY CAMPBELL

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